Clipping (audio only) - Anyone know a good post on how to check / correct?

[walpoo]

Seasons Greetings to All, I do a lot of audio conversion, mainly from vinyl / tapes to CD (.wav). Some of my work has i;m sure some clipping. Does anyone know of a good post on this subject??? Thanks in advance, Wal

[bobkart]

I have a WAV file utility (among many) that will tell you the minimum and maximum sample values (it just works on 16-bit stereo WAV files). Also tells you how many samples were at those min/max values, among other things. Something like this can be used to detect clipping. It is just a command-line EXE file that reads a WAV file from the standard input stream (redirect from a file to use on the command line). But you don't need my utility because most any audio editing application should be able to give you this information.

As far as correcting clipping, it seems like once it has happened the damage is done (assuming the clipping happened during capturing). Recapturing at a lower amplitude is the only real way to know what the clipped samples should really be. If the clipping was caused by digital manipulation of the samples, that's certainly correctable by not applying as much of whatever digital amplification caused the samples to max out the sample values.

[Soopafresh]

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=309908&highlight=peak+clip